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Sharon Osbourne slams ‘creepy’ John Wayne and backs campaign to rename airport over his ‘racist’ remarks
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thesun.co.ukSHARON Osbourne has backed a campaign to rename Orange County's John Wayne Airport over the actor's "racist" remarks. The Talk star, 67, called the Oscar-winning legend a "bad man" after a 1971 interview with Playboy Magazine was unearthed in which he said he "believed in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility." She told the Daily Star: “It just gives me the creeps.
There has always been this reputation of him of really hating blacks, Jews, anybody that wasn’t white. “When the airport came, I was like: ‘Why would you give this man this honour of having an airport named after somebody like that, who is just a bad man, a really ugly man?’ "We cannot celebrate these people that we once thought were heroes.”.
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